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AIDS thirty years later, lessons from a pandemic
Author(s) -
KESTELYN P
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
acta ophthalmologica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.534
H-Index - 87
eISSN - 1755-3768
pISSN - 1755-375X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1755-3768.2014.337.x
Subject(s) - plague (disease) , pandemic , adversary , panic , resistance (ecology) , disease , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , covid-19 , medicine , history , psychology , virology , psychiatry , infectious disease (medical specialty) , anxiety , computer security , computer science , biology , pathology , ecology
At the start of the AIDS epidemic in the early eighties panic, fear and disbelief prevailed. A new "Great Plague" had arrived! Now, thirty years later, we know the enemy, we have devised effective weapons that transform a deadly disease into a chronic condition, and very recently we made our first attempts at engineering cellular resistance to HIV. This lecture will explore the many new insights we gained during our fight against AIDS, with some emphasis on the ophthalmic aspects of the disease.